Kurt / Sean, can you log in as someone other than yourself and see the gallery? I'm using Chrome, and just see Please wait. Not a huge issue now as I use a local install, but it's nice to see what others did, and I haven't yet figured ot how to generate everything on my local machine.
I logged in as you on nutcracker123, the gallery works fine.
it is not the user, it is probably something in the way your browser, your security settings, something local that is effecting this.
like i said, i had a couple o days where i got the "Please Wait" using chrome. I may have rebooted, i dont remember but i came in the next day and gallery was working again. I certainly was not playing with any settings on my browsers. I am on windows 8 on this box.
I do know how frustrating this can be for all of you. The gallery is very popular.
BTW, i did update the gallery so we went from 5000 to 5200 effects. The new create_gallery.php will not make an entry when it finds a gif file unless the effect is still in the database. We used to be at 9500 effects. This is better because now when you copy you know that it will be clean.